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5.9 Impact of Natural Resources

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Natural resource wealth can finance development and public services, but dependence on concentrated rents may weaken accountability, increase corruption, distort exchange rates, and intensify conflict over distribution.

Compare state responses and social effects across the six AP course countries, attending to both capacity and distribution.

Quantitative lens: resourcedependence=resourceexports/totalexports∗100{resource_dependence=resource_exports/total_exports*100}.

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9 lessons

  1. 5.1Impact of Global Economic and Technological ForcesPreview lesson
  2. 5.2Political Responses to Global Market ForcesPreview lesson
  3. 5.3Challenges from GlobalizationPreview lesson
  4. 5.4Policies and Economic LiberalizationPreview lesson
  5. 5.5International and Supranational OrganizationsPreview lesson
  6. 5.6Adaptation of Social PoliciesPreview lesson
  7. 5.7Impact of Industrialization and Economic DevelopmentPreview lesson
  8. 5.8Causes and Effects of Demographic ChangePreview lesson
  9. 5.9Impact of Natural ResourcesThis lesson

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